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I know it was mentioned earlier in the thread, but here's some pics of the 1991-92 Blazers' home unis with the black letters & numbers, before they switched to red midseason. I don't have the exact date they made the switch, but they were wearing the black numbers as late as 31 January 1992.

(Great shot of the Mavericks' one-year road unis there, too!)

Some other random stuff...

The Clippers' seldom-seen "Los Angeles" script unis from 1987-88:

In 1981-82, the Pacers introduced a new home uni (the road uni carried over from the previous year). This would only last a year before it was replaced.

For the 1983-84 season, this was replaced with a gold version:

When the Pacers overhauled their look in 1985, they introduced another uni set that would only last a year before being tweaked:

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I know it was mentioned earlier in the thread, but here's some pics of the 1991-92 Blazers' home unis with the black letters & numbers, before they switched to red midseason. I don't have the exact date they made the switch, but they were wearing the black numbers as late as 31 January 1992.

Is there a reasoning of the mid-season change? Are there any other examples of such a change?

I want to say there was back some 10-15 years ago? Was it the Wizards? I'll have to dig.

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Is there a reasoning of the mid-season change? Are there any other examples of such a change?

I want to say there was back some 10-15 years ago? Was it the Wizards? I'll have to dig.

From what I recall, it was a mistake on Champion's part - the wordmark was smaller than it should have been, and there were legibility issues with the wordmark & numbers on the home uni. I'd always thought it was fixed after a couple of games and was quite surprised to discover they lasted until mid-season. I think there were various issues when Champion took over, ranging from material issues to tailoring & size problems. It was a good few years before they got all the kinks out. Indeed, some teams continued to use Sand-Knit unis for the 1990-91 season (and even into the following season). I've seen several Bucks game jerseys from the '91 season that were carried over from the previous season, some with the Sand Knit tags removed and Champion tags sewn on.

The Jazz & Bullets were a couple of other teams that suffered from incorrect number colours in the 90s, but AFAIK only in preseason games - I'm fairly sure their errors were sorted by the time of the regular season began.

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A couple more from the old ABA New Orleans Buccaneers; found these from an old program when the New Orleans Hornets played in New Orleans Bucs throwbacks back in 2008:

As the blurb at the bottom says, that's 1967-68 ABA All-Star game MVP ( later head NBA Coach) Larry Brown. ABA Commissioner George Mikan on the left, Rick Barry on the right.

Center fold out (sorry for the line and staples). Neat color-on color game vs. Houston Mavericks; would have been 1968-69 season as that's the only year Ron Franz ( no. 11 in the pic) played for the Bucs when the Houston Mavs existed.

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Is there a reasoning of the mid-season change? Are there any other examples of such a change?

I want to say there was back some 10-15 years ago? Was it the Wizards? I'll have to dig.

Prior to the start of the 2007-08 season, the Wizards officially switched from bronze to gold. In order to more emphasize the gold, they changed the NOB letters on their away jersey from white to gold. However, they also made the NOB smaller. A small, gold NOB proved to be hard to read on a blue jersey, so a few weeks into into the season they changed back to the bigger NOB and outlined the NOB in white to help make it easier to read.

Here's a pic from WSH @ IND, opening night, 10/31/07:

Their next game, 11/2/07 @ BOS:

Their next game, 11/3/07 vs. ORL:

But these NOB's lasted for less than a month.

Here's a pic of them 11/21/07 @ CHA

And they continued to wear these bigger NOBs with outlines for the rest of the season, until 2010-11 when they made the NOBs smaller again but just changed them to white on the blue jerseys.

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Prior to the start of the 2007-08 season, the Wizards officially switched from bronze to gold. In order to more emphasize the gold, they changed the NOB letters on their away jersey from white to gold. However, they also made the NOB smaller. A small, gold NOB proved to be hard to read on a blue jersey, so a few weeks into into the season they changed back to the bigger NOB and outlined the NOB in white to help make it easier to read.

Here's a pic from WSH @ IND, opening night, 10/31/07:

Their next game, 11/2/07 @ BOS:

Their next game, 11/3/07 vs. ORL:

But these NOB's lasted for less than a month.

Here's a pic of them 11/21/07 @ CHA

And they continued to wear these bigger NOBs with outlines for the rest of the season, until 2010-11 when they made the NOBs smaller again but just changed them to white on the blue jerseys.

Thanks for that run down and research. The gold with white outline don't look much better.

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Yeah, I'm not sure why they played in the Metrodome in '96? Seems rather odd to roll out a whole court and stands for a pre-season game.

On a side note ... I think the NBA should and could do a special game in the same spirit of the NHL Stadium Series in markets with domed stadiums. You could do it on Christmas or after football season in February or March?